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De Vries Family Bible

This week I obtained the image below which is from Anje De Vries‘ family Bible. I’m pretty excited about it because Jakob & Anje were my great, great, great grandparents. Their daughter, Maria (Mary) was my great, great grandmother.

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I had a bit of trouble either transcribing or translating a few of the lines so I’d be thrilled to receive a more accurate translation. Update 7/15/11: Thank you to a reader (Peter) for the corrections and translation suggestions.

EnglishDerk Meinderts Bosch,born January 7, 1812deceased 16 December 1846In the age of 34 years11 months and 9 days.married:the August 11, 1838withAnje Jans Boltborn 20 July 1818-Having thus been married,for 8 years 4 monthsand 5 daysFrom this our short mar-riage the followingchildren have been born:Ebeltje October 22, 1839.John 21 February 1842,deceased 24 April, aged2 months and 3 daysJohn March 5, 1843.Meindert, January 2 1846My brother,Timing John Bolt,was born December 22, 1812deceased, December 3, 1846In the age of33 years and 11 months11 days –De Vries was born Herm27 January 1850Pretortje de Vries bornApril 4, 1853Maria de Vries bornMarch 30, 1856Nicklaas de Vries bornthe 16 August 1863

Peter, I think I copied and pasted so many times that I messed up some of those numbers. I really appreciate you pointing those out to me. I also really appreciate the translation for those areas that I couldn’t figure out. Thank you very much!

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